Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Sun 12 May 1985

Document type:	Declassified documents
Source:	Thatcher MSS (Churchill Archive Centre): THCR6/1/2/7
Editorial comments:	Taken from a typed version of the appointment diary prepared in the Garden Room following MT's resignation but before 1992. The handwritten original has also been studied and material from that source has sometimes been added in, with explicit notes to that effect. The handwritten volumes are now being deposited at TNA in the series PREM32; PREM32/19 is the manuscript version of the diary, PREM32/7 the typed one.
Importance ranking:	Minor
Word count:	1p

Sunday 12 May 1985

[Chequers]

1055

Depart Chequers for Church + DT

1210

Arrive Chequers

1230

Buffet lunch to celebrate DT’s 70th birthday (guest list attached) [Jane Gow to MT, 15 May 1985, 1/3/16 f30; Arthur & Dorothy Rees, 15 May f32; Vic & Susanne Roberts f36; Thelma Williams f35; Duke & Sue Hussey f37] [see 1/3/16 f56 for seating plan and 2/6/3/92 part 3 f26 for guest list]

1800

Mark Thatcher and Diane Bergdorf depart

c1900

[Phone conversation with Leon Brittan on Bradford Stadium fire; see 1/12/33 f4]

2045

Depart Chequers + DT

2200

Arrive No. 10

[Press conference outside Downing Street on Bradford Stadium Fire]

MT Engagement Diary